Summer Sports - Cricket What’s in the shed?
Dennis 520 with cassette
attachments
Toro triple outfield mower
Tractor unit with rotary cutting deck and brush unit
Heavy roller - old Aveling Barford, but with modern diesel engine
Sisis Hydromain (old), with spiker, autoseeder and sarrel roler attachments
Roy on the old Aveling Barford roller the evening before the Legends match
main problem is that the square is on a slope. According to an old drawing I found, it says that the pitch is on a twelve inch slope end to end and four feet across the square. Water just runs down it and saturates one end! Having said all that, the square has, touch wood, been playing fine.”
What did England Legends have to say about it? “They were delighted. In fact, they chose the wicket they wanted to play on. I had prepared a couple of wickets and told them that one was a tad thatchy and one was a bit firmer. They looked at them both, bounced a ball on them and then made their choice.”
As a small club with just the two of
them, Roy says he does not have any fixed regimes. “The outfield is cut regularly with a Toro triple cylinder mower and the surrounds with a sit on rotary with a brush attachment. A Dennis 520 is used for the wicket and square, with scarifying and brush cassettes used as required.” “We tend to buy our equipment either new or nearly new,” states Roy. “Basically from what funds we have and what grants might be available. If I had a wish list it would include a dedicated cricket roller, a mechanical vertical spiker and a waterhog - in fact, anything the county boys have!” Other projects Roy has busied himself with include revamping the practice area, with a permanent net around the
Hand operated spinner spreader Sisis belt spreader Walkman sprayer Sisis Trulute
artificial, and added a grass practice area alongside, which was laid from scratch. Roy is typical of the volunteers that
keep grassroots cricket alive. Even in his advancing years he remains totally committed to his club, but has one passing aside. “Our membership fees are £30. That’s the cheapest in the league by a long way. Even then, they will argue that they have to pay to get into the hundred club and want free entry because they pay their
membership!”
That, in a nutshell, is the culture that needs to change.
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